Word: themes
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Ashton, who also directs the play, has taken the overworked Troilus and Cressida theme, retained the Trojan setting, and come up with two acts that purport to depict the horrors of war. By war, Ashton means War, and he has underscored the universality of his theme by a sometimes clever juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern...
What all the theory comes down to, however, is a bewildering combination of Shakespearian iambics, incessant alliteration, and implausible puns. All of this profuseness of language is rather overbearing, and suggests that Mr. Ashton may be more interested in experimenting with style than in narrating an admirable theme...
...professor of Music at Vassar College and a member of the Summer School faculty. Cast in three movements, this is an attractive and conservative work, readily accessible on first hearing. The traditionally shaped first movement is graceful and neoclassical.. The second movement, somewhat more adventurous stylistically, offers a theme and several clearly separated variations. The finale is bright and perky, with much the character of a scherzo...
Hunt, addressing himself to the specific topic of "National Issues" in a conference whose general theme was "Current Issues and Their Educational Implications," called attention to the percentage of illiteracy in the growing world as one of the "opportunities inherent in the coming century...
More Than Money. Author Bentley writes in a spare, harsh style. But at her best she is as clear-spoken as Trollope, as sharp-eyed as Balzac, when it comes to the main theme of most lives: love and money-both, of course, in their proper place. She has the disarming habit of reviewing her own stories by telling the reader what he ought to think about them. Of A Case of Conscience she says: "The inhabitants of Annotsfield . . . are often supposed by those outside the town to be complete materialists, narrow-minded, uncultured, coarse, interested only in cloth...